Anthropology
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Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition of the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life and the Glories of
$19.99 Add to cartPopol Vuh, the Quich? Mayan book of creation, is not only the most important text in the native languages of the Americas, it is also an extraordinary document of the human imagination. It begins with… [more below]
- Author: Tedlock, Dennis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 31 1996
- ISBN10: 0684818450
- Language: English
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What a Mushroom Lives for: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make
$19.95 Add to cartHow the prized matsutake mushroom is remaking human communities in China–and providing new ways to understand human and more-than-human worlds
What a Mushroom Lives For pushes today’s mushroom renais- Author: Hathaway, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 7, 2023
- ISBN10: 0691225907
- Language: English
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How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm: And Other Adventures in Parenting (from Argentina to Tanzania and Everywhere in Between)
$15.95 Read more“The book is breezy and entertaining and Hopgood is charmingly self-deprecating about her own mothering of the formidable Sofia, who emerges as a sassy character in her own right.”–Boston Globe
A to- Author: Hopgood, Mei-Ling
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 10, 2012
- ISBN10: 156512958X
- Language: English
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Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing
$14.95 Add to cart– Explores the lifestyle of indigenous peoples of the world who exist in complete harmony with the natural world and with each other.
– Reveals a model of a society built on trust, patience, and joy r- Author: Wolff, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 01 2001
- ISBN10: 892818662
- Language: English
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Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
$26.95 Read moreWinner of the Oakland “Blue Collar” PEN Award
A work of history, a manifesto, and an intergenerational story of resistance that shows how two centuries of Indigenous struggle created the movement proc- Author: Estes, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1804295507
- Language: English
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The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
$30.00 Add to cart“A rare and compassionate look into the lives of Americans who go unclaimed when they die and those who dedicate their lives to burying them with dignity.”–Matthew Desmond, #1 New York Times bestsell… [more below]
- Author: Prickett, Pamela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0593239059
- Language: English
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The Two-Headed Whale: Life, Loss, and the Tangled Legacy of Whaling in the Antarctic
$27.95 Add to cartFollowing one woman’s voyage across the Antarctic, this elegant debut confronts the dark history of the whaling industry and the mystery of one young whaler’s death against the backdrop of the vast So… [more below]
- Series: David Suzuki Institute
- Author: Winterbottom, Sandy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 1778400906
- Language: English
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The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
$32.00 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller – Finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction – A New York Times Notable Book – Bloomberg Best Book of 2018 – One of Bill Gates’s Top Five Books of… [more below]
- Author: Lukianoff, Greg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 4, 2018
- ISBN10: 0735224897
- Language: English
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Lone Stars Rising: The Fifty People Who Turned Texas Into the Fastest-Growing, Most Exciting, And, Sometimes, Most Exasperating State in
$40.00 Read moreIn celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Texas Monthly, a collection of original essays and portraits of fifty groundbreaking Texans who have shaped the Lone Star State–and the nation–over the
- Author: Editors of Texas Monthly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063068613
- Language: English
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A Theory of Everyone: The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going
$32.95 Read moreA blueprint for a better future that offers a unified theory of human behavior, culture, and society.
Playing on the phrase “a theory of everything” from physics, Michael Muthukrishna’s ambitious, ori- Author: Muthukrishna, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 31, 2023
- ISBN10: 026204837X
- Language: English
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The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin
$17.95 Add to cartBrilliantly synthesizing human insights with Christian dogma, Soren Kierkegaard presented, in 1844, The Concept of Anxiety as a landmark “psychological deliberation,” suggesting that our only hope in
- Author: Kierkegaard, Søren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 5, 2015
- ISBN10: 1631490044
- Language: English
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Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
$18.99 Add to cart“Surprising. Impressive. Cannibalism restores my faith in humanity.” —Sy Montgomery, The New York Times Book Review
For centuries scientists have written off cannibalism as a bizarre phenomenon with- Author: Schutt, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 30, 2018
- ISBN10: 1616207434
- Language: English
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Courting the Wild Twin
$24.95 Add to cart‘Fabulous.’ Dan Richards, author of Holloway
‘Terrifically strange and thrilling.’ Melissa Harrison, author of All Among the Barley
‘A modern-day bard.’ Madeline Miller, author of Circe
This is a book
- Author: Shaw, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1603589503
- Language: English
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So Much Stuff: How Humans Discovered Tools, Invented Meaning, and Made More of Everything
$29.00 Read moreHow humans became so dependent on things and how this need has grown dangerously out of control.
Over three million years ago, our ancient ancestors realized that rocks could be broken into sharp-edg- Author: Colwell, Chip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 06 2023
- ISBN10: 022680142X
- Language: English
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The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade
$24.95 Read moreAn exploration of the explosive illegal trade in succulents and the passion that drives it
Cacti and succulents are phenomenally popular worldwide among plant enthusiasts, despite being among the worl
- Author: Margulies, Jared D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1517913993
- Language: English
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Why We Need to Be Wild: One Woman’s Quest for Ancient Human Answers to 21st Century Problems
$27.99 Read more“In the tradition of the best immersive journalism.” -A.J. Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically
A bold examination of how Paleolithic wisdom could solve our 21st century problems
Jessica Care
- Author: Carew Kraft, Jessica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 22, 2023
- ISBN10: 1728276594
- Language: English
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The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
$24.93 Add to cartIn 1968 University of California Press published an unusual manuscript by an anthropology student named Carlos Castaneda. The Teachings of Don Juan enthralled a generation of seekers dissatisfied with… [more below]
- Author: Castaneda, Carlos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 520290771
- Language: English
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The Logic of the Body: Retrieving Theological Psychology
$29.99 Add to cart2022 Christianity Today Book Award Finalist for Theology & Ethics
“Do not be anxious about anything.” When it comes to stress and worry, that’s all we really need to say, right? Just repent of your anx
- Series: Studies in Historical and Systematic Theology
- Author: Lapine, Matthew A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: November 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1683594258
- Language: English
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The Temperament God Gave You: The Classic Key to Knowing Yourself, Getting Along with Others, and Growing Closer to the Lord
$18.95 Add to cartAll of us are born with distinct personality traits. Some of us live for crowds and parties; others seek solitude and time for quiet reflection. Some of us are naturally pushy, while others are conten
- Author: Bennett, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1933184027
- Language: English
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The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization
$19.99 Add to cartA “smart and surprising” (Booklist) “expansive history” (Publishers Weekly) detailing the role that wood and trees have played in our global ecosystem–including human evolution and the rise and fall … [more below]
- Author: Ennos, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1982114746
- Language: English
